The Impunity Law is intended to curtail the power of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation and severely limit its ability to issue judgments against Mexico’s political parties and deputies’ individual actions
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Redemptorist leaders, daffodils in love with their self-proclaimed moral beauty, are not responsible for the consequences of their actions. This ironclad truth was the subject of “Politics as a Vocation,” a famed conference offered by German sociologist Max Weber in January 1919 in Munich . His words then reverberate in our current time. The circumstances when
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The facts suggest that, using the covid-19 pandemic as a pretext, a perverse political pact is rapidly returning Mexico to the levels of bureaucratic inefficiency that prevailed in the country during the 1970s. That unwritten pact is between the federal government and some of the bureaucratic labor unions that exist today inside and outside of the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s lower house Chamber of Deputies pulled out all the stops when it came to spending in the second half of 2021, handing out untendered contracts right and left (well, maybe more left than right) for unbidded-on services and goods in an effort to use up its allocated annual budget. During the second session
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE In Mexico, and likely most of Latin America, rather than the two-step, it is more like the 17-step. Think about purchasing a product or a service. In a developed country, you walk in, say what you need, pay and you most likely walk out with your product or service your purchased. Simple. And if it
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER There is no doubt that the Mexican government’s hasty declaration that the covid-19 pandemic is over was motivated by politics and economic interests, not medical science. The administration of leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) didn’t even wait until the daily coronavirus death toll had dropped before issuing a jump-the-gun covid all-clear “green” infection risk
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